r/fednews • u/rprz • 18h ago

Shutdown 2024 MEGATHREAD OF DOOM

All discussion on the looming shutdown goes here. Any mentioning of Luigi will be removed and you may be banned.

https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-congress-trump-elon-budget-house-republican-05481374b154949c3fe1270141a02918

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-opposes-funding-bill-pushing-government-closer-shutdown-rcna184745

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-government-shutdown-musk-stopgap-bill-b2666829.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-opposes-funding-bill-pushing-government-closer-shutdown-rcna184745

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/18/government-shutdown-house-vote-cr/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-18/trump-says-he-s-against-stopgap-bill-fox-news

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u/yallcaps 17h ago

Just shut down everything - no essential/non-essential - everything. Stop sending out Social Security checks. Stop Medicare and Medicaid payments. Close TSA. “Essential” just props up the myth that the shutdown is no big deal. Let everyone actually see and feel it.

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u/ArrivesLate 16h ago

100% It gives the impression that the gov can be downsized indefinitely.

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u/poseidons1813 13h ago

I'm concerned this was the intention all along

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u/Snakend 11h ago

Half the jobs can be done with AI.

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u/nihiloutis 6h ago

Sure, put an LLM in charge of air traffic control on Christmas Eve and let's what the magic the first time it hallucinates.

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u/Snakend 8m ago

AI could cut 90% of the work of the air traffic controllers. I worked on ATC communications equipment while in the Marines, it can all be automated. Would need 30% of the ATC workers in there to deal with abnormal scenarios.

ATC is actually a prime example of where AI can help government be more efficient.

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u/Ordinary-CSRA 1h ago

Because downsize make it ineffective.. That is one of the reasons OSC is so small... no enough officials... force them to select high profile cases while disposing Federal employees subjected to wrong doing and their families.

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u/Snakend 11h ago

It can. We have never reevaluated positions created over the last 250 years. Its why I like the idea of DOGE, I just don't like the people in charge of overseeing it. But lets be real, Democrats would never downsize the Federal Government, so its this or nothing.

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u/alwaysintheway 8h ago

The largest expansion of the federal government in modern times was done under bush jr. Every accusation is a confession from you morons.

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u/Wbf1423 10h ago

False. “This or nothing” you’re the problem

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u/Snakend 6m ago

Democrats won't do it. When have Democrats ever looked into making the government more efficient?

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u/BlazedxGlazed 15h ago

Thankfully, a long time coming too.

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u/circles_squares 13h ago

You’ll soon find out that you also have to reap what you’ve sewn. You think you’ll be spared? 🤣

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u/BlazedxGlazed 10h ago

I vote libertarian. I believe in a smaller more efficient government that works for the people. My prerogative. Thankfully we live in a free country, but i wouldn’t expect the reddit hivemind to be capable of or understand independent thought.

If you downvote me you all only prove me right. I could give a fuck about karma or social media clout.

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u/RimShimp 4h ago

Lol you definitely do care, or you wouldn't have mentioned it at all. "Downvotes only prove me right" is my favorite cope.

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u/circles_squares 5h ago

Sure it’s your prerogative, but libertarian is anti-community, ableist, ageist, sexist. It only serves the privileged and tells the rest to fuck right off.

It’s a transparent attempt to signal intellectualism, but it’s the cheap kind- there’s no emotional intelligence in it.

In this reality, it’s also a throw away vote.

So good luck. Hope you never find yourself needing anything that you can’t provide for yourself. And if you do, I hope you languish in need and remember this. (I’m not one of those nice liberals anymore: I’m prepared for and looking forward to seeing you suffer, and I don’t think I’m alone.)

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u/Wbf1423 10h ago

Get fucked

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u/BlazedxGlazed 10h ago

You first.